Product Data Sheet

STAAD.PRO
®

The World’s #1 Structural Analysis and design Software

STAAD.Pro is a comprehensive and integrated finite element analysis and design solution, including
a state-of-the-art user interface, visualization tools, and international design codes. Capable of
analyzing any structure exposed to static loading, a dynamic response, soil-structure interaction,
wind, earthquake, and moving loads.
STAAD.Pro is the premier FEM analysis and design tool for any type of project including towers,
culverts, plants, bridges, stadiums, and marine structures.

With an array of advanced analysis capabilities including
linear static, response spectra, time history, cable, and
pushover and non-linear analyses, STAAD.Pro provides your
engineering team with a scalable solution that will meet
the demands of your project every time.
STAAD.Pro will eliminate
the countless man-hours
Clear Start Page and new structure wizard required to properly load
allows user configuration and easy access
into the program. your structure by automating
the forces caused by wind,
earthquakes, snow, or vehicles.
STAAD.Pro will eliminate the countless man-hours required
to properly load your structure by automating the forces
caused by wind, earthquakes, snow, or vehicles.
mission tower in Asia, STAAD.Pro is the perfect workhorse
for your design firm.
Extremely Flexible Modeling Environment
All the power in an interface that is based on the latest
programming technology which means that 80% of new
clients learn to use STAAD.Pro efficiently in under 2 hours.
Along with our tutorial movies, we also include on line help
and dozens of examples to illustrate solutions to commonly
raised modeling, analysis and design issues.
Broad Spectra of Design Codes
Steel, concrete, timber and aluminum design codes from
all around the world including a number of historical codes
means that you can take STAAD.Pro to wherever your
company works.
Interoperability and Open Architecture
STAAD.Pro is more than an analysis and design tool, but

In addition, no matter what material you are using or what
Powerful state of the art graphics rou-
country you are designing your structure in, STAAD.Pro can
tines to fully visualize the model.
easily accommodate your design and loading requirements,
from simple importing of CAD models to custom links to
third party applications using OpenSTAAD; it can be the
heart of your structural solution. When integrated with

including US, European (including the Eurocodes), Nordic, Bentley® ProjectWise®, your STAAD.Pro models can be effi-

Indian, and Asian codes; even special codes like AASHTO, ciently managed with the leading project collaboration tool.

ASCE 52, IBC and the US aluminum code can be catered to.
With an unparalleled quality assurance program, open
architecture for customization, and a 25-year track record
including such projects as the MCI Stadium in Washington
DC, Wimbledon Court No1 in Europe, and the tallest trans-
STAAD.Pro has the power to analyze and de-
sign the most complex of structural models.
Quality Assurance
STAAD.Pro is the only software that has gone through ISO
9001 certification and has passed the stringent software
validation requirements of the nuclear industry (10CFR Part
50, 10CFR 21 and ASME NQA-1-2000).
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Processor:
Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon
Operating System:
Windows Vista, XP, and 2000
RAM:
128MB minimum
Hard Disk:
200MB free disk space
Display:
Graphics Card supported by
DirectX 9.0
ABOUT BENTLEY
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the global leader dedicated to
providing comprehensive software
solutions for sustaining infrastructure.
Architects, engineers, constructors,
and owner-operators are indispensable
in improving our world and our quality
of life; the company’s mission is to
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projects and of the assets they
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and global collaboration – and by
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STAAD.PRO AT-A-GLANCE
User Interface
• Graphical tools. Models can be
created quickly and accurately using
structural grids, tooltips to highlight
data, frame generators and a structure
wizard for standard structural frames.
• Visualization. From simple wire frames
for speed, accuracy and ease of use
to fully rendered 3D models for clear
mass distribution and presentation.
• Editor. A color coded tool to check
and organize the data, label with
comments and organize to model
stage construction.
• Section Wizard. Calculate properties
of built up sections, drawn freehand,
parametrically defined, or imported
from a CAD drawing.
• Meshing tools. Triangular or quadri-
lateral meshes created from zones
within defined models or imported
from DXF files.
• Load generators. Seismic UBC,
IBC, ASME wind and snow, bridge
loading BEAVA.
• Customizable interface with VBA tools.
Create windows and tables to your own
specification. SQL query builder.
Objects
• Beams. Standard linear, curved and
physical beams, compression/tension
only, with databases of sections Post Processing
from around the world.
• Plates. 3 or 4 noded 2D plates and
surface objects with holes.
• Solid. Solid 3D bricks from 4 to 8 noded.
• Supports. Foundation and Multi
linear springs.
• Loads. Full range of loads for static
and dynamic analysis which can be
defined explicitly or calculated using
the wide range of load generators.
Graphical post processing and linked windows to cross
reference results data.
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Analysis
• Elastic. Traditional first order includ-
ing iterative one way analysis.
• P-Delta. Both large and small P-Delta
including stress stiffening effects
• Cable. Account for the changing
stiffness of cables due to loading.
• Imperfection. Account for imperfec-
tions in structural geometry.
• Dynamic. Modal analysis including
stress stiffening eigensolution and
steady state options, Time History
and Response Spectrums.
• Buckling. Identify the eigen
buckling factor.
• Basic and Advanced Solvers. The
standard solver, the staple of
STAAD® for over 20 years is now
complemented by an advanced solver
that can be up to 1000 times faster!
• Pushover. A solution to the require-
ments outlined in FEMA 356:2000
• Code Checking and Design
• Steel, 37 codes from around the world.
• Concrete, 25 codes batch processed or
within the interactive RC design modes.
• Timber, 4 design codes supported.
• Aluminum design.
• Shearwall designs for US, Indian and
British codes.
• Pages. The STAAD.Pro interface is
configured to suit the model to ease
access to the required data.
• Interactive graphics. Linked tables
and windows to get direct feedback
from one item in related windows.
• Output file. Simple clear information
to verify the analysis.
• User Report. Create high quality
documents.
• Contoured stress plots. Using
automatic or user configured scales,
colors and limits.
Pipe work designed in AutoPipe can be imported and graphically
linked to the structure to import the loading.
• Animations. View displacements,
stress contours or mode shapes
dynamically.
Interoperability
• Bentley® Structural. Two way link to
support creating models with design
and construction documents.
• Bentley® REBAR. Reinforced concrete
designs passed into Bentley Rebar for
complete scheduling and detailing.
• RAM™ Concept. Floor slabs can be
identified and linked to RAM Concept
for full RC and PT design and detail-
ing in a state of the art application.
• RAM™ Connection. Joints defined in
the model with the forces calculated
from the analysis passed into the lead-
ing connection design application.
• AutoPipe®. Pass the STAAD.Pro
structural steel frame into AutoPipe
to correctly account for the pipe
support stiffnesses and import the
pipe engineers support reactions back
into the model for an accurate design
in a fraction of the time of traditional
methods.
• STAAD.foundation. Import the
STAAD.Pro support reactions and
positions directly in to design the
structure foundations.
• OpenSTAAD. A complete set of func-
tions that make Open STAAD an API
from which data an be extracted directly
into applications such as MS Word or
MS Excel or your very own application.
You can even drive STAAD.Pro creating
models, run the analysis and view the
result with your own interface.
• CAD, DXF. Use CAD models as the
base wire frame, structural grid or
outline of a complex deck that needs
to be meshed.
• CIS/2. Exchange data with other steel
design packages.